Friday, February 20, 2009
In other news, Grand Salami Publishing has recently launched a soccer magazine covering the Seattle Sounders FC, the new expansion franchise in Major League Soccer. The magazine will be known as Soccer Seattle. Our editor is Steve Clare from www.prostamerika.com and our writers will include Steve, Dave Clark from www.sounderatheart.com and David Falk from www.goalseattle.com.
It's good to be back!
Monday, May 02, 2005
He'd pitch a no-hitter every time out. Even if he cost $30 mil a year I call for the M's to try to sign this Superman character...
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Monday, February 21, 2005
Monday, February 07, 2005
Nowhere on MLB.com is player contract information posted. Is there anywhere a fan can conveniently find out how many more years a player has on his contract, whether he has option years, his current year's salary, free agent and arbitration eligibility coming up the next off season, etc.? It seems that since that information is released to the public from time to time, that it should be compiled somewhere for a fan to conveniently find it. After all, true baseball fans would love to know that information, especially around trade deadlines and during the offseason. -- S. W., Auburn, Wash.
JIM "DEAD END" STREET: MLB teams consider contract information to be confidential. The Mariners rarely release details of a contract, especially if the player wants the figures to be confidential. However, the Associated Press usually obtains the information quicker than any other news organization. As far as I now, there isn't a specific site on the Internet that publishes each player's salary and other contract information.
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
While there's some hope for 2005 and beyond the unfortunate thing is that Bill Bavasi is still general manager. To exemplify what a complete and utter idiot this fellow is here's a Bavasi's quote from the press conference on Monday announcing Melvin's firing:
We knew we had some holes," Bavasi said. "And we felt that to be competitive in our division there would have to be some fallback by the other teams and we had to get fortunate. We did show some age real quick on the field."
WHAT THE HELL? Bavasi basically admits that he knew that the club he constructed last winter wasn't good enough to compete and that the club would have to get lucky in order to compete in the AL West. This has to be one of the stupidest comments ever to come out of the mouth of a so-called "baseball executive". Bavasi had the money last winter to put together a competitive team, heck he even got an $8 million windfall in January when Kaz Sasaki decided to go back to Japan, but he didn't spend it, not on Pudge Rodriguez, not on Greg Maddux -- only $1 million of the Sasaki money was spent -- on signing lefthander Ron Villone (who actually probably got $2 million for reaching incentives based on starting X number of games).
This is the team we purchased season tickets for, a team that would have to have other teams suffer a bunch of injuries and poor seasons to compete? Is this Bavasi's idea of a joke? While it's great that the organization recognized that Melvin had to go, it's truly unbelievable that this is the clown running the franchise. He presided over one of the worst falloffs in baseball history yet he gets a mulligan because it was his first year. A team with a payroll over $90 million should not have to hope for other teams to stumble in order to contend.
In the press conference Bavasi alluded to his own potential firing (after next season) saying that if he didn't make the right managerial choice (and the team sucked in '05), next year there'd be a press conference and Tim Hevly (Mariners Director of Baseball Information) would be standing there instead of him...
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Never mind that the people this bozo should be concerned about are the people in the stands at Safeco tonight -- all 20,000 (maybe) of them. Those are the people that are anxious to see Jeremy Reed, to get a glimpse of this kid the team got in the Freddy Garcia trade. But instead
This just in --- Rich Waltz just asked Melvin on the pre-game show on TV when we'd see Jeremy Reed in the lineup. Melvin replied "I'm not gonna tell you. I've got to tell him first.
The best I'm gonna do is you might see him in the lineup in the next couple of games." Then he went on to add, "with all these contending teams coming in, you're kind of under the gun to put your veteran lineup out there and put your supposed best lineup out on the field. You could see up to 2 kids in the lineup on any given day but we're not gonna put 8 kids out there against one team and not another." Who exactly is putting Bob Melvin "under the gun" not to play the orgnization's best outfield prospect??? What an idiot.
And finally, it looks like Greg Dobbs may get more playing time than Reed this month. More Melvin: "Dobber (Greg Dobbs) you might see a little more in that we don't have an everyday guy out there at third. " So I guess Melvin hasn't figured out that he has the option of moving Ibanez to first (he has played there before, both with KC and Seattle), a position where we don't have an everyday guy either (last I looked Wille F Bloomquist was starting 5 of the last 7 games at first base). With Ibanez at first, Reed could step in in LF -- but NO! FIRE BOB MELVIN NOW! FIRE BOB MELVIN NOW! FIRE BOB MELVIN NOW! FIRE BOB MELVIN NOW! FIRE BOB MELVIN NOW! FIRE BOB MELVIN NOW! FIRE BOB MELVIN NOW! FIRE BOB MELVIN NOW! FIRE BOB MELVIN NOW!